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THE WEEGS – Meat The Weegs (CD 2004) (Hungry Eye Records www.hungryeyerecords.com )
THE WEEGS are a crazy mixture of White Stripes, Phantom Limbs, Strokes, Raveonettes, Jesus And Mary Chain, Foetus and Novotny TV with a lot of power. I didn´t want to mention „Synth-Punk“ in this review, but the release info itself talks about Nervous Gender and Factrix, so I can do it, too. THE WEEGS are the right band for a small, hot Club on an evening with a LOT of beer. Brilliant! (A.P.) |
| KONTAKT ZU DEN AUTOREN: (A.P.) = Alexander Pohle (H.H.) = Haiko Herden |
From
the same record company, that gave us great releases of Sixteens, The
Vanishing and The Phantom Limbs comes this CD of the Bay Area´s THE WEEGS.
THE WEEGS are friends with the named bands and so it is not too surprising,
that they come from the same musical vault. It is not easy to describe all
the influences, but think about New Wave, think about Rock´n´Roll, think
about Punk, think about Death-Rock and just take the best elements out of it
all and you get an idea about THE WEEGS. The instrumental „Intro For Real“is
a strange combination of White Stripes-Rock´n´Roll and Germany´s legendary
Kolossale Jugend. The short „Loaves“ sounds a bit like the Phantom Limbs
with not so over the top vocals and „Pink Elephant Walk“ is a simple song
with lovely distorted guitars. „The Ballad Of Shitty McCoolie“ is a very
loud song with desperate Death-Rock singing and Organ sounds, „Slivery“ is
darker with Rock influences and „M.I.A.“ ist the WEEGS version of a Metal
track, with heavy-doomy drums and vocals. „Petticoat“ is another song close
to Phantom Limbs, while „Couldn´t Last A Weeg“ the band´s idea of a Popsong
is. „C-Section“ and „Suicide“ are more punky and finally we get the rocky „Bullets“.
And well, there is also a Spoken Word piece as hidden track.